"This is exactly the sort of book that would have been good for me to pick up as a teen. I highly recommend this book." City Book Review
Praise for To Hair and Back
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"...brilliantly and colorfully combines her life story with her relationship to her hair, examining the intricacies and cultural context of the latter while never sacrificing the exciting storytelling elements of the former. [The] prose remains impeccable and charming—quaint and quick but never wandering into whimsical territory—and this refreshing voice carries the book to its conclusion with momentum." - Kirkus
"To Hair and Back: My Journey Toward Self-love One Strand at a Time spins a masterful work of self-discovery and the journey to appreciate one’s identity." - Manhattan Book Review |
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"[To Hair and Back] is doused with wit and self-reflection." - Foreward Review
"[The author's] voice is one in a million, and more than once I found myself laughing out loud at her sharp wit. She writes the way a good friend will talk: intimately and cleverly..." - San Francisco Book Review
"A delightful romp through a woman's head, the hair on it and the brain inside it. Charming, frank, at times hilarious, To Hair and Back will attract anyone who has ever had a bad hair day -- and that is a pretty large readership." - Self-Publishing Review, ★★★★½
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# 1 on Amazon Best Sellers List
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# 1 on Amazon Best Sellers List
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If hair was a woman’s crowning glory, then why did Rhonda have a mass of uncontrollable tumbleweed at best? At worst, it was a source of frustration and self-condemnation. Raised in a family of women born with tresses suitable for romance novel heroines, Rhonda was apathetic toward her kinky coils, and, in turn, herself.
To Hair and Back – My Journey Toward Self-Love One Strand at a Time is a debut memoir that details her quest for the perfect head of hair and the discovery of something far more meaningful. In this endearing personal narrative, she explores the question: If I am not my hair, then who am I?
To Hair and Back – My Journey Toward Self-Love One Strand at a Time is a debut memoir that details her quest for the perfect head of hair and the discovery of something far more meaningful. In this endearing personal narrative, she explores the question: If I am not my hair, then who am I?
Beginning in a Detroit ghetto and traversing the globe, the author boldly reveals the joy, despair, pride, and public humiliation she experienced while in search of her best self. Through humorous self-introspection, Rhonda uses her passion for hair to explore the dynamics of her relationships, as well as themes of race and gender.
To Hair and Back takes the reader on a journey of a child bullied because of her knotty roots through her adventurous life-long crusade in search of the perfect hair. Masked as a need for creativity and a remedy for boredom, Rhonda’s obsession with her ever-changing hairstyles becomes a metaphor that anyone who has ever struggled with issues of self-worth will find relatable. This is a revealing story of a woman who learned how to shed false layers of beauty and bask in her own.
To Hair and Back is a unique narrative that is sure to evoke laughter and tears while readers root for the underdog who discovered how to love her hair and also herself.
To Hair and Back takes the reader on a journey of a child bullied because of her knotty roots through her adventurous life-long crusade in search of the perfect hair. Masked as a need for creativity and a remedy for boredom, Rhonda’s obsession with her ever-changing hairstyles becomes a metaphor that anyone who has ever struggled with issues of self-worth will find relatable. This is a revealing story of a woman who learned how to shed false layers of beauty and bask in her own.
To Hair and Back is a unique narrative that is sure to evoke laughter and tears while readers root for the underdog who discovered how to love her hair and also herself.